Importance of Employers Information Requirements in BIM Solutions.
Why EIR?
As a client you may wonder that is it really necessary to state your requirements, shouldn't the professionals know what you want or what to do?
Surely they would be using the best of industry practice, surely they will be committed to producing, managing and exchanging information in such a way that not incur an additional cost to you or your client.
So what is the problem?
The problem is that BIM is not the norm yet.
Our industry is predominantly paper-based and fragmented, wherein different people are involved at different stages of the project, which makes it difficult to find that one person who is interested in the client’s interest from start to finish. In other words, we are still using outdated practices in a Digital Age, wherein it becomes difficult to find the right person to coordinate.
Employers Information Requirements (EIR) is a document, which should clearly define the information about the built asset being procured and the process for information development, management and delivery during the project work stages. The construction clients, who are not being experts in information management, may find it difficult to describe their information requirements.
In a traditional paper-based environment that the construction industry used to work earlier, the clients trusted the design and construction teams to get the information needed to build and operate their facility in forms of printed drawings, schedules, specifications, reports etc. But, now clients are aware of the drawbacks of paper-based information process. It is difficult to access, understand or query, slow to produce or change, prone to errors that lead to a lot of duplication of effort.
BIM solution proposes a systematized approach for these inherent issues of a paper-based process. BIM is not just an addition of something to a traditional design-management process. But, it is an alternative methodology and a more sophisticated method to produce, manage and exchange project information.
The main advantage of BIM is that it captures all the information in one place. So, if anybody wants to change any information on the project, all the documents can be kept coordinated and up to date. As a result, information can be created, managed and exchanged efficiently. Moreover, the repetition of effort associated with the conventional exchange of paper-based information can also be avoided.
BIM modelling services provide a data-rich 3D building model that is able to navigate and explore all the project information. Thus every stakeholder gets a chance for a better understanding of what is being proposed and how it will suit and work together. The software is able to analyze these digital models for energy performance, structural performance, clash detection, quantity take-off and program sequencing. Thus the project team members can optimize design BIM solutions, minimize uncertainty and risk and exchange clear information to the clients and other stakeholders.
BIM process gathers and manages vital information about the building assets in the digital environment for both the design and construction process. It ensures that the facilities management team avail this information at handover in a useful format to bring into their operational systems.
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